Good quality childcare for all? progress towards universal provision

National Institute Economic Review

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-82

  la Valle, Ivana ^a   Smith, Ruth ^a  

^a National Centre for Social Research

Author keywords

Childcare; early years education; free entitlement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992884158     PISSN: 00279501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0027950109103685     Document Type: Article

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